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handling varieties like Red Astraehan and Duchess and 

 sometimes Gravenstein. and I haA'e been able to bring back 

 to the farm as high as seven or seven and a half dollars a 

 barrel for strictly fancy Red Astraehan packed in this form. 



When you are marketing a mixed load, perhaps of vege- 

 tables and fruits, and covering a grocery trade, you will 

 tind that many times they Avill welcome a pack of this sort, 

 'rhis is bound to give some color to their display of fruit and 

 vegetables and they are glad to get it. 



Here is another package that we have found satisfac- 

 tory. (Shows a flat, four-quart basket of the type used in 

 lhe Georgia carrier). When you approach a grocer and ask 

 him to come out and look at your stock and you display box 

 after box of that type pac]ved in this form, you will very 

 often get a mo-'t willing and attentive customer. Then a 

 package of that sort has great advantages at this time of the 

 year, for the house-wife is glad to get a small package and 

 this answers well. That package level full is marked here 

 three quarts and a half, but filled it would come near to a 

 four-quart package. With varieties as perishable as Red 

 Astraehan, that might be as many as one would care to use. 



There is another feature "worth mentioning if you are 

 covering that sort of trade; the grocery clerk Avelcomes a 

 unit package of that sort which takes only a moment to pick 

 i^p and hand to the customer. You are selling simply a unit 

 and there is no weighing or measuring to do, it is a perfectly 

 open package and is a very valuable package for that work. 

 Tt makes a useful package on which you can come some- 

 where near realizing a dozen price for strictly fine fruit. 



I would like to explain a little scrape I got into using 

 this package ; we packed some very fancy Duchess in this 

 xorm, put them on the market and found the fruit-stand 

 and grocery trade telling what fine dessert apples they 

 were and had to withdraw that package because that is 

 ^^trictly a cooking apple and should not be put on the mar- 

 ket under false colors. It had the bright stripes and so 



